'What allowed women to go into the workforce in droves, it was the advent of The Pill,' says the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Philanthropist Melinda Gates is calling on religious and political leaders to embrace the role that birth control can play in helping lift families out of poverty.
However, Gates said she has noticed that contraceptives are becoming less available in developing countries and in the United States."I am incredibly frustrated and disappointed to see that systematically access to contraceptives being rolled back in this country. And the people that it has the most effect for are single moms living in not great circumstances, in low income neighborhoods." Gates, who grew up Catholic, blames religious and political leaders for the rollback.
At one point, she said, she turned to her husband, saying,"'Hey, I want to work, too. I enjoy working. And if I'm going to be able to do that, you need to take on more work.'"
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